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Thursday, February 2, 2017

Judicial Retention Update

Here is the judicial retention schedule as agreed to by
committee yesterday.

Next Thursday, February 9th at 4:30 the four
Justices seeking retention will meet with the committee. This meeting and all other
meetings with the judges will take place in Room 11.

On Wednesday February 15th, Judges Arms, Bent,
Carlson, Corsones (Cortland), and Devine will appear before the committee.

The next
night, Thursday the 16th, Judges DiMauro, Kainen, Morrissey,
Rainville, and Schoonover will be interviewed.

Those three meetings will be followed by a public hearing on
Thursday February 23rd at 7PM, also in Room 11 for anyone to appear
to speak about any of the justices or judges.

As always, the committee will set aside Wednesday March 1st
at 4:30 to meet with any of the judges as a follow up to anything that may come
up at the public hearing.

Then on Wednesday March 15th the committee will
meet to deliberate and vote on the retention of all the judges. They hope to
hold the joint assembly for the vote on Thursday March 23rd.